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OBITUARIES. AMERICAN. (TILGHMAN TUTTLE.) 



of outdoor life. He served through the civil war 

 in the Confederate army, and at its close returned 

 to Indiana, where he engaged in civil engineering. 

 Later he studied law and practised in Crawfords- 

 ville, Ind. He was elected to the Legislature in 

 1879, and in 1885 was appointed State geologist 

 of Indiana and chief of the department of Natural 

 History, and served till 1889. In addition to 

 many magazine articles he is the author of Hoo- 

 sier Mosaics (1875); The Witchery of Archery 

 (1878); A Tallahassee Girl (1882); His Second 

 Campaign (1882) : Songs of Fair Weather (1883) ; 

 At Love's Extremes (1885); Byways and Bird 

 Notes (1885); The Boys' Book of Sports (1886); 

 A Banker of Bankersville (1886); Sylvan Secrets 

 (1887); The Story of Louisiana (1888); A Fort- 

 night of Folly (1888); Poems (1892); Ethics of 

 Literary Art (1893) ; Stories of the Cherokee Hills; 

 Toxophilus in Arcadia; The Ocala Boy; The King 

 of Honey Island; Lincoln's Grave (poem); and 

 Alice of 'Old Vincennes (1901). 



Tilghman, Benjamin Chew, soldier, born in 

 Philadelphia in 1821; died there, July 3, 1901. 

 He was a graduate of the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, and studied law, but never practised. At 

 the beginning of the civil war he enlisted in the 

 26th Pennsylvania Volunteers. He was severely 

 wounded in the battle of the Wilderness, and re- 

 turned home. After his recovery he commanded 

 a colored regiment. He was one of the founders 

 of the Union League. 



Todd, Robert Barr, jurist, born in Lexington, 

 Ky., Jan. 17, 1826; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 

 4, 1901. He was graduated at the University of 

 Missouri in 1843. In 1846 he accompanied Doni- 

 phan in his military expedition to Mexico. In 

 1848 he settled in Bastrop, La., where he resided 

 till a short time before his death. He served 

 several terms in both houses of the Louisiana 

 Legislature. In 1860 he was a member of the 

 Constitutional Convention, and voted for the 

 secession of his State. In 1880 he was appointed 

 to the Supreme Court of Louisiana, and he held 

 that office eight years. 



Tojetti, Virgilio, artist, born in Rome, Italy, 

 March 15, 1851; died in New York city, March 

 27, 1901. He studied in Paris under Gerome for 

 drawing and Bougereau for coloring, and came to 

 the United States in 1870. He exhibited a scene 

 from Bulwer-Lytton's Richelieu at the National 

 Academy of Design about 1883, and it was sold 

 for $4,000, the highest price up to that date for 

 a picture in the Academy. The Cornelius Van- 

 derbilt house, the Savoy Hotel, the Hoffman 

 House, in New York city, and Keith's theaters in 

 Boston and Providence give examples of his deco- 

 rative work. Among his easel paintings are Gala- 

 tea, The Two Roses, Burst of Melody, Sorrow, The 

 Veiled Prophet of Khorassan, Out of the Gates of 

 Paradise, Love's Temptation, and The Favorite. 



Townsend, Mary Ashley, author, born in 

 Lyons, N. Y., in 1836; died in Galveston, Texas, 

 June 7, 1901. Her maiden name was Van Voorhis. 

 She was educated in the schools of her native town, 

 and began to write for publication about 1856 un- 

 der the pen name Xariff a. She first attracted gen- 

 eral attention as the author of Quillotypes, a series 

 of humorous papers that appeared in the Delta, a 

 New Orleans paper, in which city she resided 

 after her marriage to Gideon Townsend. She was 

 appointed to deliver the poem on the opening of 

 the New Orleans Exposition in 1884, and that at 

 the unveiling of the statue of Gen. Albert Sidney 

 Johnston in 1887. She published The Brother 

 Clerks (1859); Poems (1870); The Captain's 

 Story (1874) ; Down the Bayou, and Other Poems 

 (1884); and Distaff and Spindle. Her most im- 



portant short poems are Creed, A Woman's. 

 Wish, The Bather, and The Wind. 



Trenholm, William Lee, banker, born in 

 Charleston, S. C., Feb. 3, 1836; died in New York 

 city, Jan. 11, 1901. He was graduated at the 

 College of South Carolina in 1855, and immediate- 

 ly went into the cotton business with his father. 

 At the outbreak of the civil war he raised and 

 equipped for the Confederate army a regiment 

 known as the Rutledge Mounted Riflemen, and 

 with it he served as colonel through the war. 

 After the war he returned to the cotton business. 

 In 1885 he was appointed United States Civil 

 Service Commissioner. After serving one year he 

 was made Comptroller of the Currency, and he 

 held that office till 1889. At the close of his 

 term he accepted the presidency of the American 

 Surety Company of New York city. In 1897 he 

 resigned this office and in 1898 became president 

 of the North American Trust Company. He re- 

 tired from active business in May, 1899. He was 

 the author of The People's Money (1893). 



Tucker, William Wallace, inventor, born in 

 New Britain, Conn., Dec. 13, 1838; died in Hart- 

 ford, Conn., July 7, 1901. He entered the Stevens 

 shop in Brookfield, Mass., and at the age of nine- 

 teen was its superintendent. Later he removed 

 to Westerly, R. I., where he was employed by 

 Cottrell & Babcock, manufacturers of printing- 

 presses. In 1861 he entered the employ of the 

 Pratt & Whitney Company, Hartford, where he 

 remained till March, 1898, when he entered into 

 business with his son as the Tucker Supply Com- 

 pany. He was the inventor and patentee of many 

 parts of the automatic screw machines. 



Turchin, John Basil (Ivan Vasilevitch 

 Turchininoff), soldier, born in the province of 

 Don, Russia, Jan. 30, 1822; died in Anna, 111., 

 June 19, 1901. He was graduated at the Artil- 

 lery School in St. Petersburg in 1841, and was 

 appointed an ensign in the artillery service. He 

 took part in the Hungarian campaign, and was 

 graduated at the military academy for officers 

 of the general staff in 1852. In the Crimean 

 War he reached the rank of colonel of the Im- 

 perial Guards. He removed to the United States 

 in 1856, and was employed as a civil engineer by 

 the Illinois Central Railroad till the outbreak of 

 the civil war. He was commissioned colonel of 

 the 19th Illinois Volunteers in July, 1861, and 

 joined Gen. Buell in Tennessee, where the latter 

 placed him in command of a brigade. Turchin 

 offered a plan to his superior officers for the cap- 

 ture of Huntsville that was accepted and proved 

 successful. In recognition of this service he was 

 made a brigadier-general of volunteers, and 

 served in the Army of the Cumberland till Oc- 

 tober, 1864, when he resigned. After the war he 

 was a solicitor of patents in Chicago, and in 1870 

 he resumed his profession of civil engineering. 

 In 1873 he established the Polish colony of Ra- 

 dom, in Washington County, Illinois, where he 

 afterward lived. In April, 1901, he was pro- 

 nounced insane. He wrote for scientific and mili- 

 tary periodicals, and published Military Ram- 

 bles and The Campaign of Chickamauga. 



Tuttle, Henry H., inventor, born in Iowa, 

 Dec. 19, 1844; died in Tacoma, Wash., Oct. 9, 

 1901. He removed to Tacoma in 1889 and prac- 

 tised medicine till 1898, when he abandoned 

 his profession to study and experiment in ex- 

 plosives. Thorite, which he had invented, was the 

 result of his experiments shortly after the be- 

 ginning of the Klondike craze while he was work- 

 ing for an explosive to use in the frozen ground 

 of that region. The invention at once attracted 

 attention in army circles in Washington, and 



